Beniamino Cardinal Stella

Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy

Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Aug 1941		Born
19 Mar 1966	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Vittorio Veneto, Italy
21 Aug 1987	46.0	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Midila
21 Aug 1987	46.0	Appointed	Official of the Roman Curia - Other
5 Sep 1987	46.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Midila
7 Nov 1987	46.2	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Congo, Republic of
7 Nov 1987	46.2	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Chad
1989	47.3	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Chad
15 Dec 1992	51.3	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Cuba
11 Feb 1999	57.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Colombia
13 Oct 2007	66.1	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
21 Sep 2013	72.0	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy
22 Feb 2014	72.5	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Cosma e Damiano
22 Feb 2014	72.5	Elevated to Cardinal
25 May 2014	72.7	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Cosma e Damiano
1 May 2020	78.7	Appointed	Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
25 Apr 2021	79.6	Installed	Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
11 Jun 2021	79.8	Retired	Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy

MicroData Summary
Beniamino Stella
Beniamino Cardinal Stella
(born 18 Aug 1941)
Prefect Emeritus of Clergy

Consistory - 2014: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2025: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place Pieve di Soligo, Diocese of Vittorio Veneto, Italy
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Cardinal through the Congregation for the Clergy.

a priest for years
a bishop for years
a cardinal for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Costantino Stella †
Archbishop of L’Aquila
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora
Bishop Jean Pierre Marie Orchampt †
Bishop of Angers

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Bernard Nsayi † (1990)
Bishop José Alberto Rozo Gutiérrez, S.M.M. † (2000)
Bishop Alvaro Efrén Rincón Rojas, C.Ss.R. (2000)
Bishop José Vicente Huertas Vargas † (2000)
Bishop Héctor Javier Pizarro Acevedo, O.A.R. (2001)
Bishop Eulises González Sánchez (2001)
Bishop Camilo Fernando Castrellón Pizano, S.D.B. (2001)
Archbishop Misael Vacca Ramirez (2001)
Bishop Fidel León Cadavid Marin (2001)
Bishop Carlos Germán Mesa Ruiz (2003)
Archbishop Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo (2003)
Bishop Luis Albeiro Cortés Rendón † (2003)
Bishop Luis Alberto Parra Mora † (2003)
Bishop Edgar Hernando Tirado Mazo, M.X.Y. (2004)
Bishop Luis Felipe Sánchez Aponte (2004)
Bishop Juan Vicente Cordoba Villota, S.J. (2004)
Bishop Jaime Enrique Duque Correa, M.X.Y. † (2006)
Bishop Guillermo Orozco Montoya (2006)
Bishop José Alejandro Castaño Arbeláez, O.A.R. (2007)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Marcelo Arturo González Amador (1998)
Bishop Jorge García Isaza, C.M. † (2000)
Bishop Hernán Alvarado Solano † (2001)
Bishop Luis Antonio Nova Rocha † (2002)
Bishop Héctor Cubillos Peña (2002)
Bishop José Figueroa Gómez (2002)
Bishop Oscar José Vélez Isaza, C.M.F. (2003)
Bishop Victor Antonio Tamayo Betancourt (2004)
Archbishop Gonzalo Restrepo Restrepo (2004)
Bishop José Roberto Ospina Leongómez (2004)
Archbishop José Miguel Gómez Rodríguez (2005)
Bishop Víctor Manuel Ochoa Cadavid † (2006)
Archbishop Joël Michel Marie Luc Mercier (2015)
Angelo Cardinal De Donatis (2015)
Bishop José Antonio Satué Huerto (2021)
Archbishop Andrés Gabriel Ferrada Moreira (2021)
Bishop Riccardo Battocchio (2025)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Pieve di Soligo, Diocese of Vittorio Veneto, Italy
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

External Link(s):

VIAF: 31713244
WikiData: Q817288

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 13 Oct 2007
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 105, Number 9,154
ab: Bollettino, 21 Sep 2013
c: Bollettino, 12 Jan 2014
cd: Bollettino, 22 Feb 2014
i: Bollettino, 19 May 2014
ab: Bollettino, 1 May 2020
i: AM, 27 Apr 2021
r: Bollettino, 11 Jun 2021

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